Novak Happy Helping Gray

Birmingham City player Lee Novak has said he is delighted with pre-season and wants to continue the great form into the season. Blues beat Inverness Caledonian Thistle 3-1 at St Andrews yesterday.

Novak said the team wanted the win for a positive end to the season`s warm up. He described it as a good team performance. The versatile striker was pleased he helped Demarai Gray get a goal with their link up play and pleased to score a belting strike himself.

He continued by saying Blues will prove they are a good team by stepping up each time the quality of opposition increases. He agreed that the wins have done no harm but he was eager to say that the real test is at Middlesbrough next week.

Novak made 28 appearances for Birmingham last season, scoring 8 league goals and finishing at top scorer in all competitions with 10.

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I think Novak will play as part of the Midfield in away games due to his defensive responsibilities. At home, yes Thomas and Donaldson would probably be my front two with their pace. Do you think he will either be up front or on the bench?

Purely on a midfield basis, wouldn't you prefer Adeyemi, Caddis and Edgar there rather than Novak? I would. I'd also prefer Wes and Clayton up front. Leaving no room for Novak. But his work rate needs to be matched by others.

Clark seems to be favouring the solid shape away from home even so, how was shaped up against Inverness will be the formation we play at Middlesbrough, that's why he selected them as our last friendly. So it could be who fits into the 4-2-3-1

For the record I prefer your idea Sask, instead of set formations for home and away we should be playing in ways tailored to beat the opposition. Included in that should be considerations given to smaller amounts of possession but that doesn't mean you can't attack all the same especially with our pace.

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